ATOMS ON THE FARM

Duration: 12 min

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Atomic Energy Commission

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Shows the Atomic Energy Commission exhibit on atomic energy in agriculture at the first world agricultural fair, held in New Delhi during the winter of 1959/1960. Shows scenes of the research reactor, masterslave manipulator, the gamma pool, the technical information center, and exhibits featuring radioactive tracers in agricultural research, plant mutations by gamma irradiation, Atomic Energy work in medicine, screwworm fly eradication, and food sterilization by irradiation.